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Barnabas Fresante
Jack Trades Unlimited
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Posted - 2016.10.20 21:55:16 -
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Ok, so mere moments ago I suffered the worst loss of my EVE career. Not because it was the most costly (though it might have been), but because this is one the one loss I shouldn't have taken because I KNEW BETTER! My other losses were mostly because I was simply still learning. But THIS time ... this time I knew better but was just BEGGING to get blown up.
I was doing a little bit of exploring down in Stain, had arrived by wormhole and had never been in the area before. Hit a sweet relic spot real soon, about 60 million from one site; had never happened to me before. Then the trouble started. In the next system I ran into an organized group, barely escaped a drag bubble and got chased through the next gate and clearly they were on to me. I got myself in a safe spot and decided to wait them out. I left the computer, watched a little tv but wondering how things were drew me back in way too short a time. D-scan shows an interdicter sitting off the gate I was going to go through to continue on my way. Well, maybe I should just call it a good run after that sweet pull in the single relic site, the wormhole's only a few jumps back the other way. So I start heading back. The next jump before the system I could go to my wormhole I see that 3 signatures had spawned since I had been through there only an hour or so before. System's empty. Out go the probes. I find another relic site, sweet! In jumps one of the guys that had been in the other system, but it's not the interceptor. Now I KNEW that these guys were probably from this area of space but I told myself as long as I hit d-scan every few seconds everything would be fine. I KNEW that if they'd already scanned down the site and bookmarked it then I wouldn't see any probes on d-scan anyway. I KNEW that but I started hacking the cans anyway. And almost immediately an astero pops on my overview. I've got two warp core stabilizers but not enough. I couldn't quite get to warp before I'm pointed and that's all she wrote. I DID have the presence of mind to start spamming jump so that my pod went to instawarp and I continued back to the wormhole and back out of null at least without being podded.
But WHY did I have to be so stupid!? So moral of the story is: don't be stupid. Don't be reckless. Don't be greedy. When you know the fecal matter is poised above the fan, don't flip the fan's power on yourself.
But this brings me to a question: How do YOU react when you get blown up, whether like me it is your own fault or something outside your immediate control. Do you walk away from the computer and take a breather? Do you switch activities for a while or do you jump right back into it?
For me, my first inclination was to quit exploring for a while and try something else. But having gotten my pod back to a trade hub, I think the best thing to do would be to get myself in a helios instead of an astero and maybe put a core probe launcher II on it instead of a sisters probe launcher so that future losses won't hurt so much and just get right back out there. After I do take a breather, of course . . .
So, how do YOU react? Do you rant, scream, wail? Is there gnashing of teeth and great weeping? Do you want to throw your monitor out the window or go into a session of extreme self berating? Do you get right back to it or change your focus for a bit? Or do you shrug your shoulders and keep on keeping on?
Inquiring minds want to know! |
Tiberius NoVegas
Stellar Exploration Consortium
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Posted - 2016.10.20 21:57:56 -
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Depending on how bad it is. Minor ships losses, ill keep playing on. Bigger ones will promp me to take a break and play a few rounds of DOTA then come back. really big losses, I turn the game off goto sleep and come back to in a day or two when ive calmed down. |
Gogela
Heh...
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Posted - 2016.10.20 21:58:14 -
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It's always CONCORD, and it's never MY fault. I'm sticking to my story. 
Signatures should be used responsibly...
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Giaus Felix
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
262
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Posted - 2016.10.20 22:01:04 -
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Gogela wrote:It's always CONCORD, and it's never MY fault. I'm sticking to my story. Well...
If you will insist on burning down the donut factory every time you get drunk 
I came for the spaceships, I stayed for the tears.
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Paranoid Loyd
9716
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Posted - 2016.10.20 22:04:28 -
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How much of the loot dropped?
"There is only one authority in this game, and that my friend is violence. The supreme authority upon which all other authority is derived." ISD Max Trix
Fix the Prospect!
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Barnabas Fresante
Jack Trades Unlimited
9
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Posted - 2016.10.20 22:12:56 -
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Paranoid Loyd wrote:How much of the other guy's loot dropped?
This isn't what you're referring to, but in my case it DID add insult to injury that my best modules and half my expensive loot dropped and very little of the chaff did... oh well :-) |
Daemun Khanid
Calculated Miscalculation
650
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Posted - 2016.10.20 22:14:10 -
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The vast majority of losses I suffer I can attribute to things I know I could/should have done differently OR are due to simply saying F it, and going out blazing. The only times I really get annoyed enough to log to calm down are when we're talking 1b + isk and knowing it was because I was an idiot.
Recently I lost close to 6 billion within 30 minutes on 2 different accounts, in 2 different systems for 2 totally different reasons (the odds of it happening were absolutely astronomically poor but it did) but what they both had in common was complacency. Just not paying attention and being over confident. In those cases I get mad enough at myself to log off and step away from the PC before I break something. Usually though I just try to take what happened in stride and try to make mental notes (sometimes even physical ones on yellow stickies) of what to do, not to do and not to forget.
If it was a legit GF then I might spend a couple days brainstorming and being a pyfa scrublord trying to figure out things that would have changed the outcome. Golden rule is adapt or die. If you don't learn from your mistakes in EvE then you'll end up breaking your keyboard in half out of frustration and canceling your sub.
Daemun of Khanid
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Cien Banchiere
Extrinsic Arcadia Distribution
120
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Posted - 2016.10.20 22:30:32 -
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Ah. I know that feeling. Two years of progress got wiped out by a single tornado because I,was paniced. Since then Ivery become unphased by losses. Dying can even be fun |
Barnabas Fresante
Jack Trades Unlimited
9
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Posted - 2016.10.20 22:39:57 -
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Cien Banchiere wrote:Ah. I know that feeling. Two years of progress got wiped out by a single tornado because I,was paniced. Since then Ivery become unphased by losses. Dying can even be fun
It is interesting how you're still-in-the-situation reaction changes over time. Yes, I was gutted after the loss, but when I saw that innocuous looking little white triangle pop up on my overview, a couple thoughts calmly (believe it or not) came into my head:
#1- crap, I'm done for
#2- shut up and spam to warp, idiot
But it was calm, my actions almost mechanical. I didn't panic so that I couldn't do anything at all as has happened in the past. And like I mentioned, I was able to save my pod. So that's progress, but about 120 million in total value down the drain still hurts afterward. May not be much to some, but when your total assets come to less than 1 billion, it's significant. |
SurrenderMonkey
Space Llama Industries
2488
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Posted - 2016.10.20 22:51:07 -
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Preemptively. The ship blew up when I hit undock. Sometimes it makes it back to the station and, hey, free ship!
"Help, I'm bored with missions!"
http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/
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Jagd Wilde
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2016.10.20 23:14:47 -
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Barnabas Fresante wrote:
So, how do YOU react? Do you rant, scream, wail? Is there gnashing of teeth and great weeping? Do you want to throw your monitor out the window or go into a session of extreme self berating? Do you get right back to it or change your focus for a bit? Or do you shrug your shoulders and keep on keeping on?
Inquiring minds want to know!
i'm usually laughing like an idiot  |
Robot Robot
What.
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Posted - 2016.10.21 00:19:47 -
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Pretty much any loss I laugh, shrug off, and send an entirely earnest "GF."
The only thing that really pisses me off anymore are instalock lowsec gatecamps when you stumble into them because they've been set up too recently to light up the map. I can't be bothered to fly around lowsec with a scout just because I'm in a 200m isk ship, so occasionally it happens.
I can't get too mad though, because sometimes I'm the one organizing the instalock lowsec gatecamps. |
Memphis Baas
2115
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Posted - 2016.10.21 00:26:54 -
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I think a lot of people have the completely common reactions:
1. Ohshit!
2. Welp, that's that. |
Eternus8lux8lucis
Primus Inc.
LEGIO ASTARTES ARCANUM
1047
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Posted - 2016.10.21 00:54:59 -
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Depends on the circumstances tbh. Usually its my own dumb fault for being dumb and its a mistake I made. I berate myself and emotional insult myself to create an emotional dialogue so that the lesson will ingrain itself deeper within my brain, as emotionally intense memories last longer and burn deeper within the psyche, to reinforce the correct method of what I should do in the future. I do this again and again until I get the desired response and then continue on.
Adapt or die.
Or as I say Analyze, Assimilate, Annihilate.
Other times I just laugh at the person and reship.
Have you heard anything I've said?
You said it's all circling the drain, the whole universe. Right?
That's right.
Had to end sometime.
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Ralph King-Griffin
Devils Rejects 666
The Devil's Warrior Alliance
18715
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Posted - 2016.10.21 01:18:39 -
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well *****
Praposal:Un-F**k Locator Agents
Praposal:Un-F**k NPC Corps
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Omnathious Deninard
Novis Initiis
3431
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Posted - 2016.10.21 01:46:08 -
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This sums up my opinion of ship loss.
http://youtu.be/Tt1W0F0yObg
If you don't follow the rules, neither will I.
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45thtiger 0109
Requiem Eternal
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Posted - 2016.10.21 02:21:44 -
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I would go aw s.h.i.t got blown up again.
And laugh a bit and then go to build another ship or buy another ship from the market.
Or Go Meh whatever  
**You Have to take the good with the bad
and the bad with the good.
Welcome to EvE OnLiNe**
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Sonya Corvinus
Grant Village
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Posted - 2016.10.21 02:50:26 -
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if you don't suffer losses, you aren't playing right. People with over 95% ISK ratios are simply so risk averse they are carebears. As long as you have the ISK to replace it, go for something risky and take the loss if you get it.
Some of the best experiences in the game are when you say "**** it, let's see what happens" and risk losing a ship. In short, don't let the risk of loss keep you from trying something. |
Valkin Mordirc
2615
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Posted - 2016.10.21 02:53:21 -
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If I die I'm having fun. =P I enjoy it. I don't actually die a lot so when I do its generally a **** IMMA GOING IN type of moment and I'm laughing the entire time.
#DeleteTheWeak
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Scipio Artelius
The Vendunari
End of Life
45202
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Posted - 2016.10.21 04:16:54 -
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I take every fight expecting to lose my ship.
When it happens, it doesn't really affect me in the slightest. I'm happy when my ship survives though.
Come Win At Eve - Join The Vendunari
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PopeUrban
El Expedicion
Flames of Exile
161
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Posted - 2016.10.21 04:29:14 -
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http://67.media.tumblr.com/14c32bd62a1d18b18653c047d3478e3f/tumblr_o24e4shDaf1qb9q7zo3_250.gif |
Vincent Pelletier
Pelletier Imports and Exports
90
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Posted - 2016.10.21 05:06:45 -
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Initial reaction: "fck!", "lol" or "oh well" depending on if I should have won it, didn't care or tried something I knew was a long shot
second reaction: "what could I have done better"
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Myles Wong
Mallaks Brown Grotto Raiders
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Posted - 2016.10.21 05:08:35 -
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After taking a 2 year break, I came back and apparently forgot everything I'm kind of glad that I got my shitfit wreathe blown out from under me. o7 the other pilot and said good fight. Thankfully it was 250mil isk of mostly junk. |
Mara Pahrdi
The Order of Anoyia
1232
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Posted - 2016.10.21 06:49:54 -
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First loss was a retriever to two pilots of Immortalis. Had a nice chat with them afterwards, though it was sort of a setback less than a month into the game. The only other loss in HS ever in almost 6 years was an empty noob ship in Sivala to Marmite.
Losses are part of the fun. The only time I wasn't really pleased was a very badly prepared wh eviction op I'd joined, where the defenders managed to bring roughly 110 ships and literally blew us away within a couple of minutes. But well, that too is part of mmos .
Remove insurance.
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John Ludik
Coitus Interruptus
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Posted - 2016.10.21 06:51:29 -
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After I get blown up, IGÇÖm always sad...
But then, more often than not, Scarlett Johansson walks into my room and says, GÇ£Sup...GÇ¥. So IGÇÖm all like, GÇ£Sup...GÇ¥. Then she says, GÇ£Want some sex?GÇ¥. And IGÇÖm like, GÇ£I can do better...GÇ¥. Then she begs a little and says something like, GÇ£But, Baby, I need you so bad! My loins ache for you!GÇ¥. Eventually I give in with a, GÇ£Fine... stop nagging. Just donGÇÖt tell anyone, OK? I donGÇÖt want people to know that I settled for a nine...GÇ¥. Then we bump uglies... and thatGÇÖs pretty much, more or less, how that goes... |
renwahh
Virtual Warriors
IMPERIAL LEGI0N
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Posted - 2016.10.21 07:35:33 -
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Mine is usually
OOOOO WT kill kill
NOOOOOO blob die die
%^%&^%&^%&^&^-ú-ú()("*-ú)("*-ú)("*-ú)("*-ú)("*-ú")(_E++"(E"_) bugger
Buy another ship
EvE sleep EvE repeat
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Elmund Egivand
Federal Defense Union
Gallente Federation
1695
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Posted - 2016.10.21 07:46:23 -
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I always respond with a 'Eh...'.
Then look at the lossmail, go back to reship, at the same time reassess what has happened and figure out how to win the next encounter with a similar ship.
I've only really start bitching about the loss when it's caused by goddamn lagspikes. Otherwise, I am so accustomed to losses in combat situations that I barely react to them anymore.
A Minmatar warship is like a rusting Beetle with 500 horsepower Cardillac engines in the rear, armour plating bolted to chassis and a M2 Browning stuck on top.
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Demolishar
United Aggression
1167
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Posted - 2016.10.21 07:53:32 -
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very badly |
Geronimo McVain
EVE University
Ivy League
219
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Posted - 2016.10.21 08:09:45 -
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On my first loss exploring in Null I stayed away from Null for a long time.
Yesterday I got blown up doing Blood raider Sides just seconds away from the pill when he landed on null with a recon (no D-scan for me). Just really bad (or good) timing. I was shaking with adrenalin and the only thing I'm sorry about is the lost time to get a new ship. Had a nice talk with the winner and he even contracted me the pill.
So I got me a new ship and will be heading out tomorrow again and will have fun again. |
Rain6637
NulzSec
34296
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Posted - 2016.10.21 08:11:13 -
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Over the last couple years it was pretty much just macros to apply for SRP before the rest of fleet so I can get paid sooner. It's also really annoying to wait for the self destruct timer? And duel requesting people in lowsec from your pod to avoid the wait doesn't always work. So I guess most of my reaction is putting away the toys and taking care of admin so I can go do something more important such as anything.
Help, I can't download EVE
President of the Commissar Kate Fanclub
PLEX: A Giffen good? (It's 1B?)
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